Jon Dyer’s passion for facial hair is pretty amazing. In his blog, he researches some of the most famous and funky beard styles and then tries to grow them into reality. He has set his sights on 34 styles and at the time of this article, he has grown 24 of them. That is 23 […]

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If you ever feel down, a Sad Kermit song may be just the thing to cheer you up. Here he is mourning the loss of Jim Henson, Ms Piggy, and doing heroin?!!

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SeeqPod claims to be “playable search” which isn’t a very clear concept. What that means is that it searches the web for audio, video, slideshows, finance, wikipedia and other rich multimedia content and plays/loads it conveniently within the search results page. 
While that doesn’t seem too useful at first, it is a great way for playing music and movies on demand. It is crucial when […]

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The Rza from the Wu-Tang is constantly evolving his career. He started as producer/MC for the grimy New York crew, Wu-Tang. After establishing the Clan as one of the most powerful groups in hip hop, he went on to create aliases like Bobby Digital and mastermind the score for hit movies like Kill Bill. The latest evolution of the […]

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So… Twitter is a social networking site where people can post micro-blogs which are viewable by others in their network.
What is a micro-blog? Twitter likes to confuse us more by calling them “tweets”, but I like to think of micro-blogging as when facebook asks you “What are you doing?”. You have 1-2 sentences to express yourself. On the […]

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The streets really aren’t safe anymore. There are red light cameras on every block, traffic cops are shooting to kill, and even Paris and Lindsey can’t get away with DUIs. The Ticket Assassin is our only hope. He offers step by step guidance to traffic violators in California. The Ticket Assassin really is Bernard Mulroy, […]

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One day while driving a few colleagues to lunch at Ramenya on Olympic Blvd, one of my passengers discovered a cell phone under one of the seats. The phone wasn’t mine and although I had a pretty good idea whose phone it was, I gave her permission to look through the phone and discover the owner. […]

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Coupon clipping is officially over now that Shortcuts by AOL offers a service where coupons can be electronically linked to your grocery store card. That way you can receive your savings upon checkout with no actual coupons required.
This is great because coupons in the mail are always hidden among advertisements and other types of junkmail. Few of us have enough […]

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Backing up and sharing files is too easy with the Microsoft Skydrive and the Gspace Firefox Add-on. These online storage solutions have been around for some time, but recently the storage space has grown quite a bit (to 5 GB) and since they’re free,  it’s time to sign up. 
 Put photo albums, music, and movies online so that you […]

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Finding new music can be a frustrating, time consuming activity, but internet radio has allowed music lovers to find new tracks and artists outside of the monotony offered by conventional radio. My internet radio site of choice is www.pandora.com. It is fueled by the Music Genome Project which assigns more than 400 attributes to every song; thereby […]

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